[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend will not play BD folder

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 07:12:47 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:24:50 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <
> >stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> My mother's Mythbuntu 16.04 box has now got a folder with a BD image
> >> in its videos storage group.  I can make it play for her using
> >> mythavtest:
> >>
> >> mythavtest /mnt/sda4/videos/Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\ John\ Del\
> >> Carlo\ 2010/
> >>
> >> But when I try to play it using mythfrontend, nothing happens.  I have
> >> tried using Play on the folder, and using "I" then "Play folder" and
> >> any other variants I could find.  Nothing works - mythfrontend does
> >> not even attempt to play it, and there is nothing at all in the log
> >> file.  Is seems that it does not recognise that it should even try to
> >> play the folder, so I am wondering if there is some option somewhere
> >> that I need to set to make it see BD and DVD folders as playable. Does
> >> anyone have any ideas?  Does playing of BD and DVD folders work for
> >> anyone?
> >>
> >>
> >> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# mythutil --version
> >> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> >> MythTV Version : v29.0-41-g0cf1422
> >> MythTV Branch : fixes/29
> >> Network Protocol : 91
> >> Library API : 29.20170212-1
> >> QT Version : 5.5.1
> >> Options compiled in:
> >>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
> >> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
> >> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
> >> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton
> >> using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec
> >> using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2
> >> using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl using_opengl_video
> >> using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus
> >> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
> >> using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> >> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
> >> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
> >> using_libxml2 using_libmp3lame
> >>
> >
> >Are you running mythfrontend as root as in the example above?  Permissions
> >on file and folder not allowing the mythfrontend user to play it?
> >
> >ps auwwxf|grep mythfrontend | awk '{print $1}'
> >
> >run mythavtest on that same file when logged in as that user and see what
> >you get.
> >
> >-Greg
>
> Mythfrontend and mythavtest are both running from the mythtv frontend
> user (rosemary).  The permissions on the BD directory are full access
> for everyone:
>
> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# ll -d Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\
> John\ Del\ Carlo\ 2010
> drwxrwxrwx 5 rosemary mythtv 24 Apr  9  2017 Donizetti - Don Pasquale
> - John Del Carlo 2010/
>

Just stabbing in the dark, but maybe because there is no file extension.  I
have never tried to play something without an extension before.
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